Check-book



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D. A. MGINTYRE.

. CHECK BOOK. No. 472,067. Patented Apr. 5, 1892.

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DAVID A. MOIN TYRE, OF NEIVARK, NEIV JERSEY.

CHECK-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 472,067, dated April 5,1892. Application filed August 27, 1891- Serial No. 403,88056. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID A. MOINTYRE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, county of Essex, and State of New J ersey, haveinvented certain new and usefulImprovements in Check-Books; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, whichform a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to produce a safety check,bill-of-exchange, or note book, whereby alterations of the slightestnature can be at once detected, the labor and expense of copying bypress or otherwise avoided, and the use of stubs dispensed with.

The invention consists in the new and improved blank check, bill, ornote book and the arrangement and combination of the checks, bills, ornotes, and their duplicates therein, substantially as hereinafterdescribed, and finally embodied in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters ofreference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures,Figure l is a top plan view of my improved safety check-book, the coverbeing removed. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 00,

Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the duplicate check-blankcorresponding with check-blank shown in Fig. 1.

In said drawings, a. represents an original check-blank, made of thinpaper.

0 is the duplicate check-blank, engraved in fac-silnile to check-blanka, but made of heavier paper, and c. is an ink carbon-paper, to beplaced between a and 0 when in use.

In carrying out my invention the blank checks are printed or engraved onordinary paper used for such purpose and a duplicate of the same,including number or any other description or sign, onasheet of thin ortissue paper. These sheets are then arranged in piles of the numberdesired and in such man ner that the thin duplicate sheet shall alwaysbe on the top of and exactly over the corresponding printing orengraving on the heavier paper. Between the thin and heavier sheets asheet of ink carbon-paper is placed when a check is to be written. Theblank checks or bills are bound or fastened togetherin the above orderin any desired manner, and the book is then complete and ready for use.

In operation the ink carbon-paper is placed between the thin and thickblank, and the check or bill is written in full on the thin sheet bymeans of a stylus, stylographic pen, or any smooth-pointed object, andthe same is at once transferred by means of the ink carbon-paper to thethicker paper beneath, in exact fac-simile. By using an intermediate inkcarbon-paper, instead of the ordinary carboil-paper, the writing ortracing is also transferred to and through the thin paper, thusreproducing in ink the original writing or tracing, of which theimpression on the thicker paper is an exact fac-simile. Any colored inkcarbon-sheets can be used as desired, or a series of colors may be used,thus aiding in the detection of any forged checks, &c. The copy ortransfer on the thicker paper is then signed and used, the original onthe thin paper being retained in the book.

By constructing check or note books in the manner described all troubleand labor of filling out the ordinary stubs is avoided and a greatsaving of time effected. WVith such books, also, any alteration, eventhe slightest, can be at once detected by comparison with the thinoriginal in the book, and, moreover, any addition or alteration by anordinary pen would be at once apparent without the necessity ofcomparison.

I am aware of the United States Letters Patent N 0. 194,026, granted toWV. A. Anderson August 14, 1877, wherein he claims and describes analternate series of thin and thick leaves, &c. I do not make any claimon the above; but

Whatl claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a check-book, the combination of a series of thin and thick duplicatecheck-blanks arranged alternately above each other, of a perforated linearranged on each of the thick blanks and near its binding edge, and afull In testimony that I claim the foregoing I carbon-paper to be placedbetween said thin have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of and thickblanks when about to be used, and August, 1891.

adapted to produce a negative impression on DAVID A. MCINTYRE. 5 theupper thin and a positive impression on Vitnesses:

the lower thick blank, substantially as de- JOSEPH A. ENO,

scribed, and for the purpose set forth. LEWIS I'I. GREEN.

